What Your AI Doesn't Remember
On April 30, 2026, researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Zhejiang University posted a paper called “Contextual Agentic Memory is a Memo, Not True Memory” (arXiv:2604.27707). The claim in the title is the whole argument. Every memory system most of us are shipping right now (markdown files, retrieval-augmented generation, vector stores, skill libraries) is not memory. It is a memo. The distinction is not semantic. It is architectural. ...